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All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Play

"Hilariously funny! Perfect glimpse into the world of everything that can go wrong actually going wrong."

Meegan Turet, Academy of the Pacific Rim, Hyde Park, Massachusetts

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Description

  • One Act
  • Comedy
  • 45 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Adult, Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Children (Age 6 - 10), Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Jr High/Primary, High School/Secondary
Based on several disastrous theatrical experiences, Bad Play peels back a tattered curtain to examine the process of putting on a show that is less than good.

A stuffy narrator (what bad play is complete without a stuffy narrator) guides the audience through the whole sorry process. We go from the audition -- where the director is more worried about roast beef than paying attention to the warm-up exercise, and the neurotic cast pretends to be bacon -- to rehearsals -- where a passive-aggressive stage manager gives everyone grief. 

There's also a special meeting of the Small Part Support Group and a production of Romeo and Juliet set in a Starbucks with costumes of potato sacks and bowler hats.

This bad play within a play won't win any awards, but All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Play will keep audiences in stitches. 
REVIEWS:

"Very humorous, well-written, easy to produce."

Kathryn Perino, Bishop Reding Secondary School, Milton, Ontario

"Hilariously funny! Perfect glimpse into the world of everything that can go wrong actually going wrong."

Meegan Turet, Academy of the Pacific Rim, Hyde Park, Massachusetts

"A very true-to-life account of a production at the start, its progress and finale. If you have ever been a part of any play, you will laugh out loud!"

Samantha J. Corrion, Unionville-Sebewaing Area School, Sebewaing, Michican

"What a crazy piece of theatre! The kids had a blast bringing this one to the stage."

Rick Clark, Village Academy, Powell, Ohio

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 3F, 11M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Expandable casting

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All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Play Script Order Now

Based on several disastrous theatrical experiences, Bad Play peels back a tattered curtain to examine the process of putting on a show that is less than good. A stuffy narrator (what bad play is complete without a stuffy narrator) guides the audience through the whole sorry process. We go from the auditionewhere the director is more worried about roast beef than paying attention to the warm-up exercise, and the neurotic cast pretends to be baconeto rehearsalsewhere a passive-aggressive stage manager gives everyone grief. There's also a special meeting of the Small Part Support Group and a production of Romeo and Juliet set in a Starbucks with costumes of potato sacks and bowler hats. This bad play within a play won't win any awards, but All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Play will keep audiences in stitches. Simple set. Approximate running time: 45 minutes.

$19.95

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